A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.